I Want to Be Like You When I Grow Up
What inspires YOU? Like many of you, I began to read and write at an early age. A book was a “safe place” where I could be whoever I wanted to be (without anyone suggesting the absurdity of my choice)…
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Monthly Archive: January 2016
Painting a Broader Stripe
“Yesterday I went to Olive Garden restaurant to have dinner with nice families. We were a group of 7 adults and 5 children. Everyone in the restaurant was knowing that we were Arabs Muslims on the table because of the…
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Scaredy Cat
What do you fear? Just think of all the acceptable words we recognized for that uneasy gut feeling that makes us stop short, sweat a bit, and perhaps run away rather than stay and fight, words we all use like “afraid”, “worried”,…
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Rethinking Old Beliefs
I had a fantastic holiday (how about you?). We were surrounded by family and friends; we cooked together in a small kitchen, played games, laughed a lot and shared wonderful memories of past celebrations. Unfortunately, I gained ten pounds from…
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